It is the privilege of tale-tellers to open their story in an inn, the free rendezvous of all travellers, and where the humour of each displays itself, without ceremony or restraint.

For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.

When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.

What a strange scene if the surge of conversation could suddenly ebb like the tide, and show us the real state of people's minds.

Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

Independently of the curious circumstance that such tales should be found existing in very different countries and languages, which augurs a greater poverty of human invention than we would have expected, there is also a sort of wild fairy interest in them, which makes me think them fully better adapted to awaken the imagination and soften the heart of childhood than the good-boy stories which have been in later years composed for them.